The Rise and Fall of Alexandria (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Rise and Fall of Alexandria Compulsively readable and sparkling with fresh insights, this is the astonishing story of the ancient city that invented the modern world. Map.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Published: 27 April 2009
- Format: Paperback 329 pages
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- Categories: Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9780143112518 ISBN 10: 0143112511
- Sales rank: 217,696
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Full description for The Rise and Fall of Alexandria
A short history of nearly everything classical. The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first millennium. In this compulsively readable narrative, Justin Pollard and Howard Reid bring one of history's most fascinating and prolific cities to life, creating a treasure trove of our intellectual and cultural origins. Famous for its lighthouse, its library-the greatest in antiquity-and its fertile intellectual and spiritual life--it was here that Christianity and Islam came to prominence as world religions--Alexandria now takes its rightful place alongside Greece and Rome as a titan of the ancient world. Sparkling with fresh insights on science, philosophy, culture, and invention, this is an irresistible, eye- opening delight.
